· Private foundation
The Drumcliff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELIZ FILADELPHIA | $52,760 |
| HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE | $50,000 |
| STREET SOCCER USA | $46,200 |
| WINCHESTER COLLEGE | $32,300 |
| HISTORIC GERMANTOWN | $25,000 |
| MT AIRY ARTS GARAGE | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GORGAS PARK | $20,000 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA | $15,000 |
| ROXBOUROUGH UNITED SOCCER CLUB | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN ALUMNI & GLASGOW U | $10,650 |
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| THE BIG SANDBOX | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSTREET SOCCER USA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $63k · revenue +50%
- WAWOODMERE ART MUSEUM3× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +230%
- BOBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA3× · 2019–2025 · $27k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- QTQUINTESSENCE THEATREone grant, 2024 · $150k
- MAMt Airy Community Developmentone grant, 2019 · $104k
- ABA BETTER CHANCEone grant, 2024 · $40k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fairmount park conservancy brings parks to life. the conservancy works with the city of philadelphia and its communities to steward our parks and nurture our shared environment, cultural resources and public health. the conservancy leads…
The mission of first philadelphia preparatory charter school is to provide a high quality public education to students in grades k-12 in philadelphia.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
To provide underserved youth from philadelphia with opportunities to develop to their fullest potential athletically, academically, and as citizens, in an environment that builds character, promotes positive decision-making, and produces…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FELIZ FILADELFIA ↗
- Who funds STREET SOCCER USA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds MT AIRY ART GARAGE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC GERMANTOWN LLC ↗
- Who funds Roxborough United Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds LAND HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY MANSION LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HORSEWORKS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Nararo Foundation · Caroline Alexander Buck Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Drumcliff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Drumcliff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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